Ingeborg Schwenzer, Christiana Fountoulakis and Mariel Dimsey, International Sales Law: A Guide to the CISG

Abstract

This book is an excellent and very useful addition to the ever-growing literature on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (the “CISG”), which was adopted in 1980 and is currently in force in 79 contracting states, the most recent additions having been San Marino (2013) and Benin (2012). Even though it is not clearly expressed in the title, this book is primarily a casebook or, possibly, a sourcebook: it contains a broad array of material on the application and interpretation of the CISG, the greatest part of which naturally consists of decisions both by national courts (of no less than 17 different countries) and arbitral tribunals, all of which are presented in English translations, mostly drawn from the CISG databases of Pace Law School and the University of Basel Faculty of Law. In addition, the book offers a large number of comparative references to statutory provisions from national law and to other instruments of uniform law (like the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Incoterms, or even the Brussels Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial disputes), as well as excerpts from scholarly articles and commentaries.